Ice Hockey

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| name = Ice Hockey
| image = [[File:Icehockey.jpg|250px]]
| caption = North American box art
| developer = [[Nintendo]], [[Pax Softnica]]
| publisher = [[Nintendo]]
| system1 = Famicom Disk System
| system1NA = 
| system1JP = January 21, [[1988]]
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| system2 = Nintendo Entertainment System
| system2NA = March 12, [[1988]]
| system2JP = 
| system2EU = April 15, [[1988]]
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| system3 = Virtual Console (Wii)
| system3NA = December 11, [[2006]]
| system3JP = December 2, [[2006]]
| system3EU = December 29, [[2006]]
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| system3KO =
| system4 = Virtual Console (Wii U)
| system4NA = February 20, [[2014]]
| system4JP = December 11, [[2013]]
| system4EU = February 20, [[2014]]
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| genre = Sports (Ice Hockey)
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| rating = Yes
| ESRB = E
| PEGI = 7
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| CERO = A
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'''''Ice Hockey''''' is a game that was released on the [[Nintendo Entertainment System]] and [[Famicom Disk System]] in [[1988]] and, as the title suggests, is a sports game about ice hockey. It was the first hockey game to be released on a [[Nintendo]] gaming system in North America. The game was designed and directed by [[Hideki Konno]]. It was later released on the [[Wii]] [[Virtual Console (Wii)|Virtual Console]] in [[2006]] and the [[Wii U]] [[Virtual Console (Wii U)|Virtual Console]] in late [[2013]] and early [[2014]]. In 2018 the game was released on Nintendo Switch as a part of a Nintendo Switch online membership.

==Gameplay==
The game was designed so that 1 player could play against the computer, or 2 players could play simultaneously against each other.

Each team only had four skaters and a goalie, as opposed to the sport in the real-world where a team has five skaters and a goalie. Each team has three different character types from which to choose. One is fast but weak, one is slow and strong, and the third is an average balance between both.

As in the real-world sport of hockey, the object is to score more goals than the opposing team.

If two opposing players fight for the puck for a certain amount of time, other players join into the fight, resulting in the player from the losing team in the fight to be put in the penalty box for a short period of time.

==Teams==
Since this game was not licensed by any professional hockey league, the teams to select in the game were different countries. While the Famicom Disk System version had [[Japan]] as a selectable team, the other versions replaced Japan with Sweden.
*[[United States]]
*[[Japan]] (FDS) / Sweden (NES)
*Czechoslovakia
*[[Canada]]
*Poland
*Soviet Union

==Trivia==
''Ice Hockey'' is featured as one of the titles in both ''[[Nintendo Power]]'' and ''[[Electronic Gaming Monthly]]'''s top 200 games of all time, not to mention [[IGN]]'s top 100.

The game helped kickstart Hideki Konno's career as a director.

''Ice Hockey'' is one of the 12 games featured in ''[[NES Remix 2]]''.

==See also==
*[[List of hockey games]]

==External links==
*[http://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/aoIb_p_zG2tWFuBcT8GS5uTcIWmwuVFr Ice Hockey] at [[Nintendo.com]]
*[http://www.vc-reviews.com/games/nes/ice_hockey Ice Hockey] at Virtual Console Reviews
*[http://www.gamefaqs.com/nes/563424-ice-hockey Ice Hockey (NES)] at GameFAQs
*[http://www.gamefaqs.com/famicomds/922350-ice-hockey Ice Hockey (FDS)] at GameFAQs
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_Hockey_%281988_video_game%29 Ice Hockey] at Wikipedia